The Transoceanic Studies series rests on the assumption of a one-world
system. This system—simultaneously modern and colonial and now postmodern and
postcolonial (global)—profoundly restructured the world, displaced the
Mediterranean mare nostrum as a center of power and knowledge, and
constructed dis-centered, transoceanic, waterways that reached across the world.
The vast imaginary undergirding this system was Eurocentric in nature and
intent. Europe was viewed as the sole culture-producing center. But Eurocentrism,
theorized as the “coloniality of power” and “of knowledge,” was contested from
its inception, generating a rich, enormous, alternate corpus. In disputing
Eurocentrism, books in this series will acknowledge above all the contributions
coming from other areas of the world, colonial and postcolonial, without which
neither the aspirations to universalism put forth by the Enlightenment nor those
of globalization promoted by postmodernism will be fulfilled.

This series is now closed, and the Press does not accept further submissions for it.